Bon Iver

Watch Bon Iver at Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid LIVE festival. It includes an a cappella performance with The Staves as well as a great performance of Creature Fear from his 2007 debut.

Our Song of the Day is from Sounds of the South ft: Justin Vernon, Sharon Van Etten, Megafaun, Matthew E. White performing an old American bluegrass gospel song written by EC Ball.

A new Bon Iver video has been released for Beth/Rest…it is one of his more unusual with a new age flare featuring some “interesting” choices of clothing.

Novo Amor is a new acoustic artist we came across recently who has just released a beautiful EP called Drift which was made during the summer in mid-Wales…fans of Bon Iver and James Vincent McMorrow will love it.

Sisters Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Staveley-Taylor, better known as The Staves, announce UK & Ireland Headline tour to follow the release of their debut album: Dead & Born & Grown

We give the low down on The Chieftains latest release: Voice of Ages. Plus we have an album giveaway!

Watch the new official video for Bon Iver’s ‘Towers’ directed by Nabil (Holocene Director). Also: a very special 4AD and Jagjaguwar collaboration: Bon Iver in session with Sean Carey

The Bowerbirds release their 3rd album ‘The Clearing’ on 6th March. We interviewed them recently during which they gave a very personal and candid insight into the making of the album and their life together as a couple.

The Chieftains are to release a star studded 50th Anniversary album titled ‘Voice of Ages’. Plus watch a 50th Anniversary tribute video!

Listen to tracks from Kathleen Edwards new album titled Voyager! Plus get those dates for her European Tour.

The third album from My Brightest Diamond, ‘All Things Will Unwind’ was composed exclusively with the chamber ensemble yMusic (Bon Iver, Antony & the Johnsons, The New York Philharmonic & Rufus Wainwright) and more folk-tinged than much of Shara Worden’s recent work.

Watch the latest video to Bon Iver’s Holocene which was filmed in iceland. You can read our review of the album here.

While on first appearances an ambitious album, perhaps uncertain of what it wants to be, it succeeds in displaying an expression of sound and an intricacy with detail that shows deft skill in experimentation, something more than making up for moments that don’t quite gel.

A noted highlight of the annual MusicNow festival weekend was a collaboration between Megafaun, Fight The Big Bull, Bon Iver and Sharon Van Etten called Sound Of The South, re-imaginings of the songs recorded by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax in his early travels.

Bon Iver, the musical project of Justin Vernon, confirms the release of his new album, Bon Iver, Bon Iver, to be released on 20th June. Watch the video trailer.

Lost in the Trees have re-orchestrated Bon Iver’s Lump Sum, they combine American folk, modern pop and dramatic unconventional symphonic classical elements.

This press release just rolled in: Americana-folk warriors MEGAFAUN, have been chosen to curate, perform, and record songs/interpretations of Alan Lomax’s classic recordings “Songs of the South” at Duke University this September. Invited guests feature Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten and jazz big band Fight the Big Bull.

From her current home base in a 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Vermont, Anaïs Mitchell writes songs that are as intimate as conversations and as rich in detail as short stories. The daughter of “hippie back-to-the-landers” whose father was a novelist and English professor, she remembers her family’s home (another farmhouse in the same state) containing “a library full of novels, and lots of old folk and psychedelic rock albums.